Stating the obvious; people desire relationships. Do not most people want to be liked,
acknowledged, recognized and even respected?
We seek relationships at home, at school, work, church, and even more so
on social media. We may even find
ourselves justifying our value by the number of so called friends or followers
we have. We count our tweets, re-tweets,
favored tweets, likes, re-shares, followers, friends, favored’s, and so
on. We are so focused on quantity and
being quantified, that we have neglected quality.
Society has come to this place where we have robbed
relationships of quality. Without
quality, what you have is nothing more than superficial, non-dependable,
unreliable, broken connections. You may
think you have gained the world in popularity by counting numbers, but in fact
you have robbed your soul of one of its greatest desires. We want to be connected to others. Friends will unfriend, followers will quit
following, re-tweets will be forgotten, favoreds will be filled away, pretty
much all the quantity and quantifying will amount to nothing more than empty
shallow meaningless numbers.
Have you ever been in a crowd and yet still felt totally
alone? I have. In robbing ourselves and cheating others of
quality communication, we have created gatherings of two, three, and even mass
multitudes of physical and digital congregations of lonely people.
Although people will come and go in life, there is one who
will never leave you or forsake you, He wants to be your friend forever and He
will always favor you. His name is
Jesus. He desires your friendship,
following, favoring, re-tweets, re-shares and so much more. He gave everything just so He could become a
friend of yours. He desires
quality.
Have you robbed yourself of the greatest relationship this
world has ever known? Have you chosen
not to have Jesus Christ as your friend?
Even worse, are you a Christian who is robbing your savior of quality
communication? Have you chosen to rob the one who gave it all so that you could
follow Him?
This may be a stretch for some, but here it is. In Matthew chapter 21 Jesus entered the
temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling, He overturned all
the tables and ran them all off. He was
angered because the temple was being dishonored for monetary gain. Right after, Jesus said “My house will be
called a house of prayer, and you have turned it into a den of robbers.” In 1 Corinthians 6:19 we are told that our
bodies are a temple for the Holy Spirit.
Now, if our bodies are temples for the Holy Spirit and Jesus himself
said in Mathew 21 that His temple is a house of prayer, then are we not robbing
Jesus Christ of a quality relationship if we choose not to communicate with
Him?
I cannot help but believe that we are obviously called to a
quality relationship with Jesus Christ.
In order to have quality we must communicate and interact intentionally,
purposefully, and routinely. If not,
then you are forming nothing more than an empty religious gathering. Although you may call yourself a Christian,
attend church regularly and even share your religion, you will still feel
lonely. Quality, that is what makes it
all real. I challenge you to make your
relationship with Christ all about quality each and every day.
May my life be the proof and evidence of Christ’s love!
